ROAD PROJECT TAKING OFF OFFICIALS SEEK FUNDS FOR PATH TO PLANT, AIRPORT.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - Palmdale officials hope to get a $40 million project rolling to widen Rancho Vista Boulevard from Fairway Drive to 30th Street East, improving access to Air Force Plant 42 and the Palmdale Regional Airport terminal. Mayor Jim Ledford and Councilman Richard Loa will travel to Washington, D.C., in February to lobby congressional representatives for funding to get at least a portion of the work started. The project will likely have to be done in phases, with the first focus on the area from Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling to Lockheed Way, the entryway to Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Aeronautical aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau Company's Palmdale plant. That first
section will cost about $4 million.
``One way or another we'll get it done,'' Ledford said. Last year, the House of Representatives passed a transportation funding bill that included $4 million for the project. However, the $275 billion, six-year funding bill stalled amid debate between Congress and the White House over the amount of funding. City officials want to expand the road from two lanes in each direction to three lanes in each direction with a median. The work would also include bike paths on both sides. Intersections would be striped with left-turn pockets and, where necessary, widened for right-turn lanes as well. Palmdale officials want to relieve rush-hour traffic congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and to position Lockheed Martin's Plant 10 and the neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Air Force Plant 42 better for future aerospace projects. More than 6,500 workers now travel to their jobs there along Rancho Vista and Avenue M. Defense readiness will be a major angle in their push for funding, Ledford said. Aircraft developed at Lockheed Martin and by defense contractors at Plant 42 have either been used or are continuing to be used in the Middle East, including the B-2 stealth bomber, the F-117A stealth fighter, and the Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft. A widened Rancho Vista Boulevard will aid in attracting a company to Site 9, the former B-1B bomber assembly plant at 30th Street East, city officials said. The site, owned by the city of Los Angeles
Spielberg movie ``The Terminal.'' Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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